The Harvey River is a river in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
and is the southernmost of the three major waterways which drain into the
Peel-Harvey Estuary
The Peel-Harvey Estuarine System ( nys, Djilba) is a natural estuary, estuarine system that lies roughly parallel to the coast of Western Australia and south of the town of Mandurah, Western Australia, Mandurah.
The strip of land between the In ...
, with its delta in the southern extreme of the Harvey Estuary. It is about 90 km in length, rising near
Mount Keats
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest.
Mount or Mounts may also refer to:
Places
* Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England
* Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...
. Due to flooding of grazing land the river was diverted to discharge directly into the ocean in 1934.
The river's first recorded encounter was by Dr
Alexander Collie
Dr Alexander Collie (2 June 1793 – 8 November 1835) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who journeyed to Western Australia in 1829, where he was an explorer and Colonial Surgeon.
Early life
Collie was born in Insch in Aberdeenshire, Scotland ...
and
Lieutenant William Preston in an expedition in November 1829. It is presumed to have been named by Governor
James Stirling after Rear Admiral Sir
John Harvey John Harvey may refer to:
People Academics
* John Harvey (astrologer) (1564–1592), English astrologer and physician
* John Harvey (architectural historian) (1911–1997), British architectural historian, who wrote on English Gothic architecture ...
, who in 1818 was Commander in Chief of the
West Indies Station
The Jamaica Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed at Port Royal in Jamaica from 1655 to 1830.
History
The station was formed, following the capture of Jamaica, by assembling about a dozen frigates in 165 ...
while Stirling had served in that region.
References
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Rivers of the Peel region
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